This Book Helped Me Understand Football!

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Considering that I previously lived in the Philippines, I found a lot of things so weird and different when I first came over here in the UK. One of those things is the difference between football (UK) and American football. When I found this book as I was searching for audio books on Amazon, I decided that it’s time to educate myself.

After I finished listening to this book, it gave me better understanding of what the differences are and what the sport really is all about. Although I’m not really that into sports, my fiancé is and he is a big football fan. Now that I have better idea about the game, talking about it has now been our way of bonding and it is really fulfilling.

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A solid football overview

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Does an excellent job at its stated intention: giving a clear overview of the game of football. Detailed and thorough but not overwhelming. I will continue to happily recommend this to anyone who wants to understand the basics of the game and its culture!

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A great introduction to American football

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Football made easy” by Ace McCloud presents football as a very big deal in America, most popular among colleges students and younger children. McCloud describes the best techniques to warm up, exercises and equipment.

McCloud presents the best mental support techniques are visualization to create positive self-image. You can visualize yourself with ball performing, be optimistic, avoid compare yourself to the others, learn how to control your fear.

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McCloud shows how well organized are players. Describe different players depend of their position and role. I like the chapter about offensive formation like Wild Cat, West Coast Offense, Pistol Formation and Defensive formation – Gap Control, Position 0, That is very informative and powerful chapter.

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"Football..." highlights that crucial is strength and speed exercises training at different time of the year, especially off-seasons. The author presentseasy and useful exercises for football players like stretching, practice speed, strength and power. It is very useful description of variety of exercise for upper body like rows, flat bench press, shrugs, military press. For lower body good are squad, leg curls. You should also practise speed like running. For strength excellent are practice variety with dumbbell like dumbbell shrug or squad.

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I enjoy that book and feel scared at the beginning as the author shows that football can be dangerous so you need to pay attention on your protective wear like helmet, open or close cage face mask, shoulder pads, gloves, football pants, shoes with spikes on their soles. It create atmosphere of great competition, powerful game that helps you reduce your energy and it is not so scared as it looks like.

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"Football: made it easy" by Ace McCloud is a very good and informative compendium that helps you to understand and have fun of playing or watching football. Highly recommended.

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Made Football Simple for a Complete Beginner

I got this book because my boyfriend plays football and I thought that I should get a greater understanding of his passion. This book took me through the basics but then also provided him with some great tips to fine-tune his game. He can't stop talking about how much of a difference this book has made!
He particularly enjoyed the section on mental focus as that's something that's often left out of his training.
I'd definitely recommend it to both beginners and experienced players as we both learnt a lot and really enjoyed it!

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Helped me to understand American football

I have absolutely no background in American football but my friends are all really into it and even play it in their spare time. I bought this guide as a gift to them really to help improve their play and also so they can understand the game better. It is full of information to help improve your game, excellent warm up exercises to increase effectiveness and performance and key strategies.
However I found that as I listened to the guide that I too learnt a lot about the game and started to understand a lot more about the strategy and techniques behind the game which puts me in a much better place to be able to converse with my friends about it better.
Very good guide for complete beginners!

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